Michigan State Legislature for the Week of April 25th

We expect the legislature to continue to pass first house budget bills so they can sit in the opposite house until the legislative leaders can reach a compromise on budget cuts, tax cuts, tax increases and/or tax shifts. Until they do this there can be no resolution or passage of the budget bills.

Many, many capitol observers believe that the legislature will not do anything on the state budget until AFTER the November elections and more and more observers believe that they will wait until the new Governor and new legislature is sworn into office in 2011.

Very little other legislative action scheduled and very few major pieces of legislation expected to move thru the legislature this week.